On numerical diameters and linear maps

Abstract

This paper studies the diameter of the numerical range of bounded operators on Hilbert space and the induced seminorm, called the numerical diameter, on bounded linear maps between operator systems which is sensible in the case of unital maps and their scalar multiples. It is shown that the completely bounded numerical diameter is a norm that is comparable but not equal to the completely bounded norm. This norm is particularly interesting in the case of unital completely positive maps and their sections.

Added Prop 2.11 and 3.2 that the numerical diameter for self-adjoint maps is obtained on self-adjoint elements. This has simplified a number of results throughout